PTC: Confine "Indecency" To Cable

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable 12/7, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Commerce Committees, Brent Bozell, president of the Parents Television Council, is proposing that cable remain free of FCC indecency regulation. He'd like to see Congress "quickly" pass legislation to boost broadcast indecency fines to $500,000 per incident and to require cable to provide channels a la carte so that viewers can reject unwanted content. If they will do that, he says, then “if the industry wants to air this indecent programming, it can do so on cable television, which is not governed by federal indecency regulations. The top-six media companies own two-thirds of the networks on cable, so they have innumerable delivery vehicles on which they can air this material. Thus, their artistic freedom is insured."
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